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University Daily Kansan, December 6, 1982
Alumni asked to lobby for support
By DAN PARELMAN
Staff Reporter
Former state representatives urged KU alumni Saturday to tell current legislators in their districts that the committee's support in the comin legislative session.
"I's rough for all agencies and all institutions this year, and we want to make sure higher education is treated equally," John Vogel, former state senator from Oklahoma, said to the development committee of the KU Alumni Association, said yesterday.
The committee, which is composed of 250 alumni and friends of the University, met Saturday in the Kansas Union.
Former State Rep. Tom Van Cleave, committee co-chairman, told
the committee members that they should contact legislators in their districts before the 1983 legislative session and in 10 and again during the session.
HE SAID it was important that students, as well as alumni, contact their representatives.
"In order to have the highest quality of education at the University it's certainly necessary that the students be given on appropriations," Van Clevé said.
Vogel said, "What we like to do is get the members of the development committee to go back to their senators and make sure they them the story of higher education."
Van Clevea was a state representative from Wyndotte County from 1955 to 1969. Vogel served in the Legislature from 1963 to 1981 as a
representative from Douglas County. He served on the House Ways and Means Committee the last 12 years he was in the Legislature.
VOGEL SAID that during the meeting the alumni had been told they should contact members of the Ways and Means Committee, because that committee passed state budget appropriations.
"We felt that their requests were reasonable," Vogel said.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig presented to the committee Saturday the fiscal 1984 University funding release and the行政会议 will consider next session.
Joph Simons Jr., national president of the Alumni Association, said the committee would be to be reasonable before the legislature would seriously consider them.
Students who are waiting for their fall Pell Grant checks will be able to pick them in the office of student financial aid after spring semester registration, Jerry Rogers, director of the office, said recently.
Not all students who were eligible for the grants received them this fall because of a delay in the transfer of federal funds, Rogers said.
A Christmas wreath decorated with red ribbons hangs above the entrance to Strong Hall.
In addition, students who are eligible for supplemental grant checks will be able to pick them up at spring semester registration in the Kansas Union, or in the financial aid office after registration. Rogers said.
The supplemental checks were expected before Christmas break, but were delayed because KU already had received its minimal aid allocations.
Grant checks will be issued at registration
The supplement grant money was made available after Congress overrode President Reagan's budget veto early this fall.
More than 1,200 KU aid recipients are eligible for the supplemental funds, which could be as little as $12 or as much as $126.
Students who have questions about their financial aid awards should see an aide counselor before the office closes for the holidays Dec. 24.
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A few years ago, former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin spoke at the University of Kansas, but was out by noisy anti-Israel protesters.
On Feb. 15, the words "Hiller didn't finish the job, you jeew" and a swastika were screwcled on a professors' name page on a cartoon taped to his Wescoe office door.
And last month, a non-political display about Israeli culture at the information booth across from Bailey Hall was vandalized.
These incidents are signs of growing anti-Semitism, racism and xenophobia, or fear of foreigners, on the KU campus, David Katzman, professor of history, told the University Senate Executive Committee Friday.
He said he thought the incidents had not received the publicity they deserved. He is angered by his "intimacy to him" and the campus that there is a problem," he said.
Katzman said that after he discovered the anti-semitic note and swatikas on his door, he unsuccessfully tried to have the incident publicized in the
THE RECENT attack on the information booth did not get enough attention either, he said.
The Rabin and information booth incidents represent not only a growing intolerance toward minorities, but also an infringement on the right of citizenship to suit, and he wants the University to develop a policy ensuring that freedom.
Otherwise, the right of expression could disappear for some, he said.
"in terms of free speech, no one gives to us and it’s always under attack," it Kushner wrote.
Attacks on free speech can leave students intimidated. he said.
"If the University doesn't take a strong stand on free speech, the nature of the University is threatened," Katzman said.
IN A letter Katzman sent to Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, after he discovered the swastika on his door, he wrote, "Not only am I offended personally by this act but also I consider it a blow against academic freedom. I believe that the University community must in some way, deal with an Al-Strani mission and xenophobia that is becoming bolder and more open."
Katzman said the University should also make its policy on free speech clear to foreign students who have not written a letter of no opinion right to speak freely is not guaranteed.
"There are students here who are not aware enough of the American tradition of freedom of speech," he said. "We don't try hard enough to educate them to be good citizens while they're here."
SenEx members agreed that the University should make a statement on free speech and suggested that Kazman come to a meeting of the University and present the University's major faculty and student issue to the larger faculty and student group.
Charles Kahn, SenEx secretary, said infringement on free speech at the University should be a punishable offense.
"THE FACULTY must express its disgust," Carothers said. "I think the average person who writes on a wall is very nervous because of one of the less lively Muppets."
"His response, in part, was that if students cannot adhere to such a policy, perhaps they ought to go to some other University," Katzm said.
James Carothers, SenEx member and associate professor of English, said that graffiti he had seen all over his house was the growing intolerance to minorities.
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